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@auschwitzxhibit 2/n Heinrich Himmler was about to visit the extermination camp on July 17 and 18. As the figure of 962 deportees arriving by train from Amsterdam in Westerbork on July 15 was considerably smaller than the Germans had expected – they aimed to deport 4,000 Jews from the Netherlands
2/n due to a lack of spare parts, which officially could not be obtained due to the war. This meant that anyone who wanted to reach the top would have to climb over 1,600 steps.
2/n Rivka-Regina Folkenflick wrote these words to her parents, Chana and Moshe, and her brother, David, from her hiding place, a short time before she was murdered. Chana, Moshe and David survived.
2/n streets additional thousands were arrested by patrols of Romanian and German soldiers and taken to police headquarters. 
2/n rail transport to support Operation Market Garden on 17 September 1944. 30,000 railway employees are on strike. The trains don't run anymore until the end of the war. But as a punitive measure, the German occupiers blocked food transports to the provinces of North and South 
2/n Shortly before the Bendin (Będzin) ghetto was liquidated in August 1943, Sara and Yehiel Gerlitz decided to separate from their daughter Dita in order to save her. Assuming they would never see their daughter again,
2/n similar fate had befallen the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice.
2/n In Camp Vught the children had already had a hard time. Children over the age of four were placed in separate barracks and rarely saw their parents, if at all. This was very hard for the children. Some children became rowdy, others very ill. Various contagious diseases were
2/n were gassed shortly after arrival. He was registered as prisoner 106144 and assigned to the Sonderkommando at Birkenau, the unit of prisoners forced to empty gas chambers and burn the bodies, firstly working in Bunker 2, later in Crematorium III.
2/n Taken either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos & fingerprints of the inmates (not of Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came 
2/n remaining Jews into a ghetto.
2/n They were held there in inhumane conditions, as described by their (non-Jewish/Christian) friends who tried to contact them. Many had nothing to wear other than the clothes they were in at the time of their arrest.
2/n Starting in 1927, Stern looked after his sister Martha and became the legal guardian of her son Rudolf.
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2/n on May 10, 1933, university students burned over 25,000 volumes of “un-German” books, presaging an era of state censorship & control of culture. On the evening of May 10, in most university towns, right-wing students marched in 
2/n wrote Käthe Stark, “of which we were completely unaware.” Only a few days later, when the Red Army troops arrived, did the inmates really feel that they had been liberated. Yet for many survivors liberation was too much to bear. In an interview, one of the pioneers of 
2/n The White Rose was composed of university (mostly medical) students who spoke out against Adolf Hitler and his regime. The founder, Hans Scholl, was a former member of Hitler Youth who grew disenchanted with Nazi ideology once its real aims became evident.
2/n Lutz arrived in Budapest in January 1942 as Swiss vice-consul, and was put in charge of representing the Unites States, Great Britain, and other countries that had cut off ties with Hungary.
2/n Until 1939, most of the prisoners were put to work building the camp and the living quarters for the SS. The main camp of Mauthausen consisted of 32 barracks surrounded by electrified barbed wire, high stone walls, and watch towers. Due to the immense number of prisoners that 
2/n So as December wore on and snow engulfed the camp and the factory where Levi worked, things both had changed and were the same as always.
2/n Photo: Jews from Liepāja on the dunes of the village of Šķēde, north of Liepāja, where they were murdered, 15-17 December 1941. The 2,750 victims were apprehended in Liepāja; after selection they were brought to Šķēde, where they were marched to ditches dug in the sand. They 
